About: Salena Zito
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Democrats and Republicans Go Hard Against Biden Regulation
BUTLER, Pennsylvania — One of the most underreported crises in American culture is the collateral damage people and communities suffer from government overregulation. Just one little regulation can start...
Middle America Is Dying Hard
WEIRTON, West Virginia — Most people in this town will tell you they’d rather have taken a physical punch to the gut than get the news they received yesterday...
Democrats Say Biden’s Pause on LNG Is Like ‘Throwing a Match in a Bale of Hay’
A robust chorus of congressional Democrats, business leaders and Republicans, as well as international allies, are calling on President Joe Biden to undo the pause he placed on liquefied...
Trump’s Inflection Point Began Where No One Was Looking: East Palestine
EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — The sleet and rain were unforgiving here on Feb. 22, 2023, the day former President Donald Trump came to this small Columbiana County village. Despite...
The Silent Death by a Thousand Cuts in Manufacturing
WILMERDING, Pennsylvania — By July of this year, the last man on the job here at the Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation will, in all likelihood, turn around as...
Community Colleges and Trade Schools Are Largely Void of Israel-Hamas Protests
TV host Mike Rowe said that eight years ago, he was switching the news channels on his television and saw several college students setting fire to the American flag...
What the ‘Great Trucking Recession’ Is Warning Us About the Economy
JOHNSTOWN, Pennsylvania — Two months ago, 30,000 truckers at Yellow lost their jobs when one of the nation’s oldest and largest trucking companies filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection....
Is Abortion the Reason Democrats Are Heavily Investing in the Mississippi Governor’s Race?
National Democrats, flush with cash and looking for a narrative showing their party can retake the South from a near 20-year Republican dominance, are pulling out all the stops...
Mike Rowe’s Intentionally Unintentional Intentional Purpose-driven Life
Mike Rowe has had one heck of a year, and it isn’t even over yet. Rowe, best known for hosting the Discovery Channel’s long-running “Dirty Jobs,” is also involved...
The Political and Economic Impact of a UAW Strike
On Friday, the United Auto Workers said over 97% of their 150,000 members who work for Detroit Three automakers gave union leaders their approval to call a strike if...
Biden’s Pattern of Behavior Lacks the Empathy He Promised
On Sunday, after spending several hours on Rehoboth Beach in Delaware, President Joe Biden was asked by a member of the press pool about the rising death toll in...
The Fall of a Great American City
PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania — It’s 10:30 a.m. on a Thursday morning and a homeless man is curled up against the decorative angled brick below the archways of the large pane...
Economic Uncertainty Mounts as a Major Freight Carrier Heads to Bankruptcy
OVERLAND PARK, Kansas — Yellow Freight, one of the oldest trucking companies in America, located here in this Johnson County city, hit the end of the road Friday when...
Biden’s Failure Record With Broadband Goes Back to the ‘Stimulus’ of 2009
WATTSBURG, Pennsylvania — In July of 2009, Joe Biden, then the vice president of the United States, came to this Erie County town to discuss the federal stimulus monies...
The General Store That Cultivated a Community One Friday at a Time
LANSING, North Carolina — Nestled in the rolling farmland in Ashe County is a tidy white-clad building whose wistful charm beckons you to stop. It’s the kind of place...